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Gutian Invasion of Akkad

2154 BCE – 2112 BCE

Barbarian Gutian tribes from the Zagros Mountains overwhelmed the declining Akkadian Empire, plunging Mesopotamia into a dark age until the Sumerian renaissance under Ur-Nammu.

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Gutian Invasion of Akkad

2154 BCE – 2112 BCE

Barbarian Gutian tribes from the Zagros Mountains overwhelmed the declining Akkadian Empire, plunging Mesopotamia into a dark age until the Sumerian renaissance under Ur-Nammu.

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